The Cuban Tragedy Needs More Scrutiny & Clarity

 Top Caribbean Experts Speak Out!!!

    One of the leading experts on US-Cuba Relations is American University professor Fulton Armstrong. His comments shown below update his views regarding how President Trump and Secretary of State Rubio since January of 2025 have tightened the already very tight U. S. sanctions on Cuba and appear ready to force a regime change in Venezuela also.

      Many believe that the Miami-born U. S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, with ultra-power regarding Foreign Affairs since January of this year, would have already orchestrated a regime change in Cuba except for the fact he is also so massively engaged in ending international wars including the bloody Russia-Ukraine War.

     Meanwhile, the notable photograher Vladimir Molina is one of the best Caribbean journalists chronicling the pulse of the Cuban people on their island. He shares his work on social platforms to provide insightful views and viewpoints of the often misunderstood everyday Cuban people while the U.S.-Miami media basically presents only extremely negative images of the island's revolutionary leaders who took power in 1959 by overthrowing the US-backed Batista dictatorship. Molina in November-December of 2025 is more-than-ever distressed about the plight of yet another generation of Cuban children facing dire conditions with much of their problems obviously related to the tightening of the endless U. S. EMBARGO.

     Both topical news and history confirm that the U. S. EMBARGO surrounding Cuba has existed since 1962 for the purpose of ending revolutionary control of the Caribbean's largest island. The expected easy overthrow of revolutionary Cuba has not taken place even though in 2025 the U. S. continues to tighten harsh sanctions on Cuba that include the EMBARGO.

       On the first day of 1959 Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution overthrew the US/Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship that U. S. support and U. S. tourism had helped to become very rich and supposedly too powerful to be overthrown...until the Cuban Revolution chased Batista off the island in the wee hours of January 1sr, 1959.

     Since 1959 generations of Cubans and Cuban-Americans who dominate nearby Miami have dictated U. S. policy regarding Cuba. That is particularly true in 2025 with more-and-more Cuban-Americans from Miami such as Maria Elvira Salazar tightly control Cuban policies in the U. S. Congress. Salazar is shown above loudly demanding that the already vicious U. S. sanctions against Cuba should be more vicious!!

For almost seven decades little Cuba has resisted Miami.

But for sure, Miami dictates the USA's Cuban policy.

Miami loved dictator Batista but hated the rebel Castro.

     The struggles of little Cuba against the mighty United States -- especially the historic Batista-to-Castro transition that came about on January 1st in 1959 -- has been epic for many decades. After the U. S. victory in the brief-and-easy 1898 Spanish-American War fought on Cuban soil, the U. S. celebrated its victory over Cuba, even establishing a powerful U. S. Naval Base on the island's plush southeastern tip in 1903 at Guantanamo Bay, which the U. S. still owns. But in 1959 after Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution ousted Fulgenico Batista's US-backed dictatorship, Revolutionary Cuba became the USA's pugnacious enemy. Although Castro died in 2016 at age 90, his legacy and stubborn rebel streak shakily still holds off total U. S. dominance, except for the 45-square-acre U. S. military base at Guantanamo Bay.

    This Vladimir Molina photo taken this week as November turned into December in 2025 indicates why Revolutionary Cuba, against all odds, has survived since 1959. It shows a meeting of everyday Cubans discussing their island's awesome problems but stressing strongly that the prime topic was their desire to remain loyal to Fidel Castro. As 2025 begins to turn to 2026, Rubio and Trump need to tred at least softly on that fact of life in Cuba more than 90 years after "Fidel" died in Havana at age 90.

Yes, Fidel is still loved by most Cubans in Cuba.

Rubio & Salazar hate Fidel but should not hate everyday Cubans.

       This photo and caption by Vladimi Molina was posted on Facebook and other social media outlets this week. He said: "Children are born to be happy, especially Cuban children." He was pointing out that Cuban children such as this little boy have for generations now have suffered terribly in Cuba since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution over US-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959. Molina mostly blames that dire situation on the drastic and endless US EMBARGO that has existed since 1962. Most of the world agrees with Molina although Miami stalwarts such as Rubio and Salazar deny that basic fact.

     The Cuban headlines shown above in late November of 2025 reflect what the world is being told about the vast economic problems existing in Cuba. Of course, neither the Miami nor US headlines blame the US EMBARGO but that is simply not true just as pretending that the Mafia-Batista dictatorship back in the 1950s was a paradise for everyday Cubans. It, of course, was only a paradise for Batista, the Mafia, and the many rich U. S. companies that partook in the spoils simply didn't bother to toss even a few crumbs to the everyday Cubans on the island.

     At least, after 1959, the Revolution tried to toss food, shelter, and education to every Cubans on the island. To deny that fact is to deny Batista-Castro history.

The photo above in Batista's Cuba was/is "wrong." 

The two Cubans above know "changes" & "sanctions." 

      The photo shown above shows Marco Rubio and other rich Little Havana Cubans in Miami directing President Trump's U. S. Cuban policies. The problem is this: decent but poor everyday Cubans in Cuba should also have a say about such things.

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Exactly Nine Years Since Fidel Castro Died

 How Much Has Cuba Changed?

     Today is November 25th in 2025. Exactly nine years ago -- on November 25th in 2016 -- Cuba's legendary revolutionary leader Fidel Castro died at age 90 in Havana. His Cuban Revolution way back on January 1st in 1959 overthrew the US/Mafia-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista. Fidel Castro's revolution all these decades later and nine years after his death still rules Cuba although each day since 1959 Cuba's northern neighbor, the United States -- the strongest nation in the world -- has tried mightily to end Fidel Castro's revolution.

       Today -- on November 25th in 2025 -- if he was still alive it is sure that Fidel Castro's primary thoughts would be about the United States and the U. S. economic embargo that began in 1962 but in 2025 is stronger than ever. Of course, Fidel called the embargo a blockade, and "bloqueo" would still be his term for it.

The "bloqueo" and Fidel Castro are still synonymous in 2025.

     Today -- on the 9th anniversary of Fidel Castro's death at age 90 -- Helen Yaffe is remembered as the world's top historian regarding the life and legacy of Fidel Castro. She is a Professor at the University of Glasgow in England and she knows more about Fidel Castro and what he still means to Cuba than any other source.

     Today -- on November 25th in 2025 -- Helen Yaffe posted on social media her remembrance of this day exactly nine years after Fidel Castro died. To know Fidel Castro and his legacy, take note of what she said above today, as shown above, and then dial up Helen Yaffe's YouTube interview about Fidel that originated on the BBC:

     On YouTube there are about ten excellent videos showing the great Professor Helen Yaffe being interviewed about Fidel Castro. The one shown above is about five minutes.

     In her interviews, lectures, and books, Helen Yaffe's knowledge of the impact of Fidel Castro's life and legacy is unparalleled. Her many trips from Scotland to Cuba have been to gauge the pulse of the Cuban people, and no historian knows them {or Fidel Castro} better than Professor Helen Yaffe.

      And, yes, Helen Yaffe used the two images shown above on her social media page to stress her belief that the endless U. S. economic embargo/blockade of Cuba is genocidal.

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When Will the US Feel Sorry for Everyday Cubans?

      The United States economic embargo against Cuba began in 1962 and is stronger than ever in November of 2025. Why? And moreover, when will it end?

      Any good map will confirm that the island of Cuba remains the largest nation in the Caribbean. Although there are now many areas on the island that are still decaying badly because of massive economic problems while other places are being restored and improved to again resemble some of the most beautiful aspects of the tropical and tourist-mecca paradise that prospered so profoundly prior to 1959 when the Florida Mafia kingpins and the United States government were combining to wildly support the money-crazed, tourist-loving Batista dictatorship.

       But after Batista was ousted by the Cuban Revolution in 1959, the U. S. EMBARGO against Cuba was imposed in 1962 and it has existed for over six decades. No other Caribbean nation nor any other nation in the world has ever faced such an EMBARGO imposed by a much larger nation. In other words, the Caribbean's largest nation, Cuba, is the only nation in the world surrounded by an economic EMBARGO that severely restricts economic viability such as tourism, something other nations around the world are allowed to enjoy...all except not post-Batista Cuba.

     Since January of 2025 international news sources such as the BBC have informed the world that the U. S. EMBARGO, which began in 1962, is being "tightened" by the current U. S. goverment led by President "Trump." When an EMBARGO that began in 1962 has been continually "tightened" by the strongest nation in the world for almost seven decades, where does that leave the citizens in that EMBARGOED small nation? The asnswer is easy: The everyday people in Cuba in November of 2025 are facing food and medicine shortages, constant island-wide power blackouts, and other extreme deprivations. Thus, on November 20th in 2025 below are Cuban Headlines flashing around the world:  

Everyday people in Cuba do not deserve these headlines!! 

A Google search, as above, readily explains Cuba's plight!! 

The CEDA News Brief shown above updates the Cuban plight!! 

Everyday Cubans don't decide what Venezuela does!! 

      At age 85 and as a lifelong American Democracy-Lover, permit me to ask two questions about the two images shown above: {1} How and Why has the United States allowed this to exist for the past 66 years? And {2} does this shame the United States more than it shames Cuba? 

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